Oceans and Coasts
Locals struggle with WASH issues post-Amphan
posted 5 months agoUN’s recognition of safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right recently hit a decade and this makes us ponder even more about the situation in the Sundarbans after the Amphan cyclone. The destruction caused by Amphan in the Sundarbans poses a massive threat to the very right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation of the people living there.

Amphan’s impact on farming and livelihood in Sunderbans
posted 5 months agoThe Amphan cyclone has disfigured the lives of people living in the Sundarbans. Houses have been torn apart, farms have been filled with brackish water making the land unsuitable for farming and betel leaves have been destroyed. People in the Sundarbans are in a life-threatening situation with makeshift shacks to live in and no means to earn a living.

Flood batters Assam, over 16 lakh people hit
posted 6 months 1 week agoFlood situation in Assam continues to remain grim

UP tops in providing employment under MGNREGS
posted 6 months 3 weeks agoUP emerges as the top state in the country to give employment under MGNREGS

Covid-19 threatens to worsen India's water crisis
posted 7 months 3 weeks agoWhile the world has got a reprieve from pollution with emerging wildlife, cleaner air and clearer water bodies during lockdown, Covid-19 might actually be worsening the present water crisis in an inconspicuous manner. The world is still developing more clarity on safeguards that can prevent transmission, treatment and post treatment complications.

Covid-19 could push 260 million Indians into poverty: Research
posted 7 months 4 weeks agoNearly 260 million Indian could be pushed to poverty due to Covid-19: Researchers

A climate change wake-up call
posted 11 months 3 weeks agoA new McKinsey Global Institute report, ‘Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts’, suggests that many assumptions about the pote

NGT orders 100 percent treatment of sewage entering rivers
posted 1 year 1 month agoEnsure 100 percent treatment of sewage entering rivers: NGT to authorities

Cyclone Bulbul devastates West Bengal and Odisha
posted 1 year 2 months agoCyclone Bulbul causes devastation in West Bengal and Odisha

300 million people will be vulnerable to annual coastline flooding by 2050
posted 1 year 2 months agoA new research study by Climate Central, a US-based non-profit research group has projected that 300 million people could face annual coastal flooding triggered by climate change by 2050.
